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Elizabeth Peyton
John Giorno
2008
Gavin Brown’s Enterprise

RUNNING, JUMPING, STANDING STILL
by Charlie Finch

Apr. 21, 2008

Fifteen years on, Elizabeth Peyton continues to do the same thing, which has been a good strategy, considering that her new pocket-size paintings at Gavin Brown are sold out at $6,000 a square inch.

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Charlie Finch Archives for 2008

Apr. 18, 2008	FEAR STRIKES OUT by Charlie Finch Boycott the Olympics, and boycott contemporary Chinese art.

Apr. 17, 2008	FAKE IT 'TIL YOU MAKE IT by Charlie Finch Olafur Eliasson and the illusion of taste.

Apr. 8, 2008	THE THREAT OF LOVE by Charlie Finch Walter Robinson puts the error back in eros.

Apr. 4, 2008	WHITE MEN CAN’T PAINT! by Charlie Finch Morgan Neville’s new film, The Cool School, on the early Los Angeles art scene.

Mar. 31, 2008	HANGING AT THE HORTS’ by Charlie Finch Talk of Marlene Dumas, Richard Tuttle and Jimmy Page at Susan and Michael Hort’s private view during Armory weekend.

Mar. 26, 2008	A BROWN WORLD by Charlie Finch Painter Deborah Brown captures natural New York.

Mar. 21, 2008	CHEERS! by Charlie Finch A few words occasioned by Eduardo Sarabia’s Salon Aleman at the Park Avenue Armory.

Mar. 20, 2008	THE RETURN OF MAX ESTENGER by Charlie Finch New works by the artist from Queens.

Mar. 19, 2008	BETWITCHED by Charlie Finch New psychedelic allegories from Lane Twitchell.

Mar. 18, 2008	NOT SO WEI OUT by Charlie Finch Ai Weiwei’s Descending Light at Mary Boone Gallery.

Mar. 17, 2008	STARWALKERS by Charlie Finch Naked wonder from Richard Dupont at Lever House.

Mar. 14, 2008	MY DINNER WITH SIMON by Charlie Finch Veteran curator Simon Watson and the contemporary art banquet.

Mar. 11, 2008	DOOBY DOOBY DUBAI by Charlie Finch A modest proposal for art in the Middle East.

Mar. 4, 2008	BIENNIAL FOR ONE by Charlie Finch Go to Facebook for your own Whitbash 2008.

Feb. 28, 2008	INTERNATIONAL MAN OF MYSTERY by Charlie Finch Thomas Krens, father of the global art plutocracy.

Feb. 27, 2008	GRIDLOCK by Charlie Finch "Color Chart" at the Museum of Modern Art.

Feb. 26, 2008	CHILDHOOD’S END by Charlie Finch Anna Craycroft, orphans and hope, and Obama as Manchild.

Feb. 22, 2008	THE LAST PICTURE SHOW by Charlie Finch Painter Chris Martin provides Chelsea with its final triumph.

Feb. 22, 2008	DR. STRANGE by Charlie Finch Baird Jones, 1954-2008.

Feb. 20, 2008	GET SMART by Charlie Finch "Design and the Elastic Mind" at MoMA.

Feb. 19, 2008	LOVE FOR SALE by Charlie Finch Peeking at the market for Miroslav Tichy.

Feb. 14, 2008	BROAD MINDED by Charlie Finch Swaping curatorial souls for the favors of the wealthy.

Feb. 11, 2008	THE WAY IT WAS by Charlie Finch The modest beginnings of legendary dealer Richard Bellamy.

Feb. 7, 2008	FATHERS AND SONS by Charlie Finch At the Museum of Biblical Art, "The Art of Forgiveness: Images of the Prodigal Son."

Feb. 6, 2008	LET THEM EAT WATER by Charlie Finch Olafur Eliasson’s "Waterfalls" is just for the good of New Yorkers.

Feb. 4, 2008	A COSMIC JOKE by Charlie Finch Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty was designed to be passive.

Jan. 28, 2008	CRITICAL MASS by Charlie Finch The keys to the art-critical kingdom.

Jan. 22, 2008	LATE BLOOMER by Charlie Finch Nobuhiro Ishihara’s symbolic creatures.

Jan. 18, 2008	CUT AND PASTE by Charlie Finch "Fit to Print" at Gagosian Gallery in New York.

Jan. 17, 2008	REPETITIVE STRESS by Charlie Finch Zhang Peili provides a chilling look at the world’s oldest civiliation.

Jan. 14, 2008	PENNMANSHIP by Charlie Finch Steely esthetic asceticism from Irving Penn.

Jan. 9, 2008	NAVAL GAZING by Charlie Finch Julian Schnabel’s new "Navigation Drawings."

Jan. 7, 2008	WHAT MAKES A MASTERPIECE by Charlie Finch A tale of the art market, 2008.

Jan. 4, 2008	OUT ON A LIMB FOR 2008 by Charlie Finch Scoping out the new year.

Charlie Finch Archives for 2007

Dec. 29, 2007	THE ASHES OF CHARISMA by Charlie Finch Contemporary artists and their pretensions.

Dec. 21, 2007	A CHRISTMAS EVE MEMORY by Charlie Finch New York City in the 1950s.

Dec. 19, 2007	TROLLING AT THE TROLL by Charlie Finch A new museum opens on the Lower East Side.

Dec. 14, 2007	ART AND THE PRESIDENCY by Charlie Finch Art takes a leave from the 2008 campaign.

Dec. 12, 2007	CRAP ON CRAP by Charlie Finch Lucian Freud’s inferior art.

Dec. 7, 2007	CLASSICS AND COMMERCIALS by Charlie Finch Selling art and selling out.

Dec. 3, 2007	WEEKDAY UPDATE by Charlie Finch A single masterpiece on view in New York’s Chelsea art district.

Nov. 30, 2007	EVE OF DESTRUCTION by Charlie Finch Employing entropy in the world of art.

Nov. 28, 2007	WATTS UP by Charlie Finch Sober symbolism in new paintings by Ouattara Watts.

Nov. 26, 2007	SPECTACULAR SHOW by Charlie Finch Symbols of transformation from Indian artist Bharti Kher.

Nov. 21, 2007	ESTRANGED IN A STRANGE LAND by Charlie Finch Hu Xiangdong packages China for consumption.

Nov. 20, 2007	THE VIRTUES OF TRANSPARENCY by Charlie Finch Time to smash open the doors of auctionland.

Nov. 12, 2007	DUPED! by Charlie Finch New homonculi from cybersculptor Richard Dupont.

Nov. 8, 2007	PECULIAR INSTITUTIONS by Charlie Finch Remembering galleries of times past.

Nov. 2, 2007	BLACK BOX by Charlie Finch Douglas Gordon’s new burnt-Warhol-on-mirror works.

Nov. 1, 2007	A LOST OPPORTUNITY by Charlie Finch Martin Puryear at the Museum of Modern Art.

Oct. 26, 2007	A NOT-SO-VAST RIGHT-WING CONSPIRACY by Charlie Finch The art blogs and their nonexistent readers.

Oct. 25, 2007	A SHOEBOX SHOW by Charlie Finch Park Avenue Bank hosts a show of works by 20th-century women artists.

Oct. 23, 2007	I AM STONED (ARE YOU STONED?) by Charlie Finch The secret Conceptual Art techniques of Lawrence Weiner.

Oct. 18, 2007	CHINA DOLLARS by Charlie Finch What’s behind the boom in Chinese contemporary?

Oct. 16, 2007	POPULAR PAINTINGS by Charlie Finch "XXL: Size Matters" at the Hudson Valley Center.

Oct. 12, 2007	ART ABOUT LIFE by Charlie Finch Lisa Yuskavage versus death.

Oct. 10, 2007	ART INFLAMES by Charlie Finch Vandalizing Andres Serrano in Sweden.

Oct. 5, 2007	VOLUNTEER SLAVERY by Charlie Finch Kara Walker and the injection of sex into horror.

Sept. 28, 2007	PRINCE CHARMING by Charlie Finch Richard Prince, market Leviathan.

Sept. 27, 2007	GOODBYE GLENN by Charlie Finch Hello Halbreich -- staff changes at the Museum of Modern Art.

Sept. 26, 2007	OLD SCHOOL by Charlie Finch André Emmerich, 1924-2007

Sept. 25, 2007	LOOKING by Charlie Finch When the eye is not invited in.

Sept. 21, 2007	FRANKINSCENSE by Charlie Finch Natalie Frank’s new paintings are both disturbing and entrancing.

Sept. 19, 2007	THE TALENT by Charlie Finch Hollywood stars and art stars, both dim.

Sept. 12, 2007	MIXED MESSAGES by Charlie Finch Marian Goodman Gallery celebrates its 30th anniversary.

Sept. 10, 2007	ANOTHER OPENING, ANOTHER SHOW by Charlie Finch Deborah Kass at Kasmin -- and Bottino -- plus the Collector Fair.

Sept. 7, 2007	DARKNESS VISIBLE by Charlie Finch On Lisa Ruyter: One Million Postcards.

Sept. 5, 2007	The return of midcareer by Charlie Finch A glance at the contemporary gallery offerings in New York this fall.

Aug. 23, 2007	ART OPPORTUNITIES by Charlie Finch A change in market values means a change in art values.

Aug. 17, 2007	HOW HE PAINTS HIS MASTERPIECE by Charlie Finch Waiting for Bob Dylan’s painting exhibition.

Aug. 13, 2007	JUST BRUCE by Charlie Finch Bruce Wolmer, 1948-2007, RIP.

Aug. 6, 2007	LIQUID SKIES by Charlie Finch Will the hedge fund crisis sink the art market?

July 30, 2007	A BIZARRE COLLECTOR by Charlie Finch A visit to Kykuit, the estate of the now-forgotten Nelson Rockefeller.

July 23, 2007	THEREMY by Charlie Finch Remembering Theresa Duncan and Jeremy Blake.

July 19, 2007	A WORLD WITHOUT WARHOLS by Charlie Finch With Andy, the "authenticity" issue is absurd.

July 12, 2007	ORWELL ON DALÍ by Charlie Finch Is artistic freedom morally neutral?

July 7, 2007	FORM THING by Charlie Finch The lesser offerings are the thing at Storm King Art Center.

June 27, 2007	STINGELESE by Charlie Finch Rudolf Stingel’s graffiti art at the Whitney Museum.

June 25, 2007	WHAT ART SAYS ABOUT MONEY by Charlie Finch The love call of currency.

June 18, 2007	SIMPLE THINGS by Charlie Finch Seeking small moments of mildly enlightened distinction.

June 13, 2007	DAMIEN HIRST JUMPS THE SHARK by Charlie Finch The YBA star flogs a $100-million diamond skull.

June 4, 2007	JERSEY TRANSIT by Charlie Finch If you ride Jersey Transit, you don’t need Richard Serra.

May 24, 2007	I’VE GOT THEM OL’ COSMIC FILLMORE EAST BLUES AGAIN by Charlie Finch On the occasion of "Summer of Love" at the Whitney Museum.

May 17, 2007	REMEMBERING JONATHAN by Charlie Finch A memorial for art scribe and Asia hand Jonathan Napack.

May 5, 2007	WHATEVER HAPPENED TO DAVID ROCKEFELLER? by Charlie Finch Mark Rothko’s White Center (1950) hits the auction block.

May 4, 2007	MURAKAMI AND THE MURPHYS by Charlie Finch Parallel manifestations of Sara and Gerald Murphy and Takashi Murakami.

Apr. 26, 2007	PRINCE FEIGEN by Charlie Finch The quattrocento meets Ab Ex in "Sublime Convergence" at Richard L. Feigen & Co.

Apr. 18, 2007	BITS AND PIECES by Charlie Finch Rummaging through old Manhattan with photographer Kevin Landers.

Apr. 9, 2007	PECULIAR PEARLS by Charlie Finch Dead calm in Philip Pearlstein’s paintings.

Apr. 4, 2007	WHAT YOU SEE IS WHAT YOU SEE by Charlie Finch "Blue Cage Sculptures" by Rebecca Smith.

Mar. 27, 2007	RADICAL ETHIOPIA by Charlie Finch The African Christ in Ethiopian art.

Mar. 22, 2007	SPECIAL OPS by Charlie Finch Reticent retinal art, and more, on Madison Avenue.

Mar. 15, 2007	SPRING OASIS by Charlie Finch The Hammond Museum and Japanese Stroll Garden.

Mar. 7, 2007	STUBBED by Charlie Finch George Stubbs is as much an ironist as an avatar of the sublime.

Mar. 5, 2007	CINDERELLA by Charlie Finch Loving Cindy Sherman as she swans into middle age.

Feb. 26, 2007	DISAPPEARING ACTS by Charlie Finch What’s new in Artland.

Feb. 21, 2007	LOVE IN THE RUINS by Charlie Finch Gordon Matta-Clark at the Whitney Museum.

Feb. 12, 2007	DILL VERSUS PRINCE by Charlie Finch Lesley Dill and Richard Prince at the Neuberger Museum.

Feb. 9, 2007	THE GILDED CAGE by Charlie Finch Imagining the 2008 Whitney Biennial.

Feb. 5, 2007	THE PROBLEM OF THE MUSE by Charlie Finch A figure one wants so to behold but never to be.

Jan. 26, 2007	A NEW MARKET THEORY OF ART by Charlie Finch Is everyone making money, or is the money making them?

Jan. 17, 2007	WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF NO CONTEXT by Charlie Finch Doug Aitken turns MoMA into an outdoor Cineplex.

Jan. 10, 2007	TWO THIEVES by Charlie Finch The bohemian and the ubercollector.

Jan. 2, 2007	THE WAY WE WERE by Charlie Finch Remembering art as a part of life.

Charlie Finch Archives for 2006

Dec. 14, 2006	THE BIBLE TELLS ME SO by Charlie Finch Photographer Alix Smith, plus contemporary art, at the new Museum of Biblical Art in Manhattan.

Dec. 7, 2006	ROBERT ROSENBLUM, 1927-2006 by Charlie Finch The art world’s great populist.

Dec. 6, 2006	TANIGUCHI’S REVENGE by Charlie Finch The Museum of Modern Art unveils its new Education Building.

Nov. 28, 2006	PICKING AND CHOOSING AT DIA BEACON by Charlie Finch Minimalism lives in a converted factory in a Hudson River mill town.

Nov. 20, 2006	THE CARNIVAL STOPS FOR A GRAY DAY by Charlie Finch On Agnes Martin and Kiki Smith.

Nov. 14, 2006	SEDUCED AND ABANDONED by Charlie Finch Who says New York needs a museum of contemporary art?

Nov. 6, 2006	PAINTING THE TAPE by Charlie Finch Hedge funds and the art market.

Oct. 27, 2006	WHAT BECOMES A LEGEND LEAST by Charlie Finch Brice Marden at MoMA.

Oct. 19, 2006	MISSION CREEP by Charlie Finch The new catchword for museoexecs.

Oct. 12, 2006	ONE GOOD PRINT by Charlie Finch Prints and editions from Europe at MoMA.

Sept. 29, 2006	PICASSO THE CONSERVATIVE by Charlie Finch At the Whitney Museum, how Cubism retarded American Art.

Sept. 19, 2006	THE FAILURE OF DE MONTEBELLO by Charlie Finch Taking apart the Met chief’s latest pronouncements.

Sept. 11, 2006	POOLS OF WONDER by Charlie Finch Alchemy and a hint of claustrophobia in Isca Greenfield-Sanders visions of suburbia.

Aug. 29, 2006	CRITIC AGONISTES by Charlie Finch Skunks and art critics.

Aug. 7, 2006	A QUIRKY COLLECTOR by Charlie Finch Museum founder Roy Neuberger was one of a kind.

Aug. 1, 2006	FEET OF CLAY by Charlie Finch Since when does money create masterpieces?

July 14, 2006	BABES IN LOYLAND by Charlie Finch German painter Rosa Loy’s female mythology.

June 28, 2006	PICKING AND CHOOSING AT THE WHIT by Charlie Finch All the masterpieces at the Whitney’s "Full House."

June 19, 2006	The Great Picabia by Charlie Finch Francis Picabia is the star of "Dada" at MoMA.

June 8, 2006	WHATEVER HAPPENED TO DOUGLAS GORDON? by Charlie Finch There once was a man from the Highlands. . .

May 15, 2006	A BREAKTHROUGH SHOW by Charlie Finch Sherry Wong paints a 21st-century Big Chill.

May 5, 2006	OLD FRIENDS by Charlie Finch Notes on Jocelyn Hobbie, Lisa Ruyter and Kerri Scharlin.

Apr. 26, 2006	ARTE POVERA IN NEW ORLEANS by Charlie Finch Throw some support to the City That Care Forgot.

Apr. 4, 2006	WORLD OF WOMEN by Charlie Finch "Bearings: The Female Figure" at PS122 Gallery in Manhattan.

Mar. 27, 2006	WHITNEY BIENNIAL V. EVERGLADES by Charlie Finch Where rules must be observed to stay alive.

Mar. 10, 2006	STOP THE INSANITY! by Charlie Finch Contemporary art’s disconnect from the real world.

Mar. 6, 2006	THE RETURN OF ANTHONY JAMES by Charlie Finch New works go on view in Chelsea.

Feb. 9, 2006	THE SEDUCTION OF NATALIE FRANK by Charlie Finch Portrait of a fast rising star.

Feb. 1, 2006	TRUE LOVE COMES TO VEGAS by Charlie Finch Wedding bells ring for our scribe and his bride.

Charlie Finch Archives for 2005

Jan. 18, 2006	A VISIT WITH DEB AND PATTIE by Charlie Finch New work by New York artists Deborah Kass and Patricia Cronin.

Jan. 4, 2006	POSTMODERN SYSTEMATICS by Charlie Finch Touchstones in the pseudoreligion of contemporary art.

Dec. 20, 2005	SIDESHOW BOB by Charlie Finch Robert Rauschenberg "Combines" opens at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Dec. 14, 2005	SELECT, DON’T SETTLE by Charlie Finch Passing some time in New Haven.

Nov. 30, 2005	SOPHIE’S CHOICES by Charlie Finch New "Zebra Stripe Paintings" by Sophie Matisse.

Nov. 11, 2005	THE GROVES OF ACADEME by Charlie Finch A visit to the Columbia MFA open studios.

Nov. 4, 2005	TIRED OF ART? by Charlie Finch In search of surprises in a complacent contemporary art world.

Oct. 20, 2005	ELIZABETHTOWN by Charlie Finch Elizabeth Murray at the Museum of Modern Art.

Oct. 19, 2005	SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL by Charlie Finch Touring Chelsea on Saturday, looking to buy.

Oct. 11, 2005	TOYS IN THE ATTIC by Charlie Finch Art protected from the wider world.

Sept. 22, 2005	A DREAM WITHIN A DREAM by Charlie Finch Laurie Anderson’s supernal "The Waters Reglitterized."

Sept. 13, 2005	A Chat with Leo Steinberg by Charlie Finch The great art historian, still in the "Now"

Sept. 12, 2005	THE TEASE CONTINUES by Charlie Finch The last pictures of Diane Arbus.

Aug. 29, 2005	What’s Love Got To Do With It? by Charlie Finch Artist Lisa Kirk organizes the feminist/anti-feminist "Bonds of Love"

Aug. 8, 2005	Buffalo Soldier by Charlie Finch "Extreme Abstraction" at the Albright-Knox.

July 22, 2005	More Than a New Discovery by Charlie Finch Photographer Alix Smith and the subjects of identity.

July 8, 2005